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Modern UK Architect: 20th Century Scottish + English Building Projects
22 Jan 2017
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“Combining brutality and breezy optimism, the British architect Peter Womersley brought a purist?s beauty to small-town projects in the 60s and 70s. Now his virtuosic talents are being rediscovered”, reports Rowan Moore in The Guardian today.
Bernat Klein Studio in Selkirk by architect Peter Womersley:

photograph : Rebecca Wober
Peter Womersley (1923-93) was, quite simply, one of the best British architects of the 20th century, and until recently one of the most overlooked. His buildings are adventurous but poised; lucid, brave in conception and considered in their detail. Fairydean Stadium, Galashiels, Borders, Scotland:

photo © Adrian Welch
He knew how to be elegant in a classical modern way but also how to play with a mannerism ? a strange window rhythm, an imbalance in the structure, a stretched proportion, an ambiguous material ? so as to achieve a greater composure than if he had played only by the rules.
Garleton Unit, Herdmanflat Hospital, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland

photo © Adrian Welch
Rebecca Wober, an Edinburgh-based architect (Ed. a friend and former colleague of mine on the Scottish Parliament Building) who has done much to unearth his life and work, says he made ?spaces that...